24k Gold-Plated Sterling Silver St. Florian Medal

St. Florian is the patron saint of Austria, Poland, chimney sweeps, soap boilers, and firefighters. As a high ranking officer in the Roman army, Florian trained an elite group of soldiers whose sole duty was to fight fires. The emperor, Diocletian, began a fierce persecution of the Christians; reports reached Rome that Florian was not enforcing the proscriptions against Christians. When Florian was ordered to offer sacrifice to the Roman gods, he refused. He was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Standing on the funeral pyre, Florian is reputed to have challenged the soldiers to light the fire, saying "If you do, I will climb to heaven on the flames." Apprehensive, instead of burning Florian, they drowned him in the Enns River. The Austrian town of Sankt Florian is named after him.

Gold-plated jewelry has been around for over one-hundred years; today modern yellow gold-plated sterling silver jewelry is created with such advanced techniques that many pieces have quality standards similar to solid gold jewelry. The best gold-plated jewelry is gold-over-silver jewelry as silver is a fantastic base metal for gold-plating.

It’s fitting this is finely crafted in silver, the spiritual meaning of silver symbolizes strength, spirit, grace, divinity, wisdom and purity. Sterling silver is known as the metal of emotions, love and healing. This is earth friendly as it is made with the Refined Karats system certified by Scientific Certification Systems’ (SCS) strict requirements. This is proudly made in America with a green process of ethically, environmentally and socially responsible production processes; the silver is 100 percent recycled.

The rising price of silver makes this a great investment.

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